I like Bottles. And it’s good for us to have options.
This is wonderful news. Bottles is the best WINE GUI out there, in my humble opinion. It’s a shame the project uses Github, though.
My humble opinion is it’s the worst of the available options. Still a shame it uses GitHub tho.
I don’t know what’s difference between “PlayOnLinux” and “Bottles” because this duo packages just Wine manager in steroids
What does PlayOnLinux do differently than Bottles?
Nothing aside from UI
Is this a compatibility layer like WINE?
It’s more of a prefix manager
I believe it’s a container system for WINE (hence the name)
It’s a launcher that uses Wine variants (“runners”) to emulate the Windows runtime environment, like Lutris.
Oh like Heroic
It’s far more flexible, but yes.
Heroic and Lutris have strong opinions and narrow, focused use-cases. Bottles is really just a generic, all purpose GUI for easily managing the underlying CLI tools. It’s the next best thing to directly using Wine on the command line.
It’s not just a prefix manager. Bottles also provides a more predictable runtime environment using Flatpak sandboxing (it uses its own libraries instead of whatever’s installed on the system), and is specifically developed with that in mind.
It predates Heroic by at least a few years, but yes, they are similar in purpose.
i just run everything in the same prefix to save space. i tried bottles don’t really understand why i need it.
